Reported Dead Fortress Gunner Returns Home
Sgt Luther Wilson a Flying Fortress gunner was reported dead and listed as a POW then found alive. After a long sequence of conflicting notices from Red Cross and War Dept, he was exchanged from Germany, arrived New York September 26, and home October 5 amid one of war’s most unusual, happy conclusions.
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Luther Wilson
Edward H. Albrecht
Dalton
L. T. Wilson
Miami
Red Crass
Gen
Marshall
Stimson
Wilson
Luther
Germany
War Department
Munich
Adjutant General’s Office
Set. Wilson
Sweden
New York
Gripsholm
New AWVS Project to Cheer Proud G I Papas
The Chicago Metropolitan Unit of the American Women's Voluntary Services begins a new project. Starting November 15 volunteers prepare and mail free greeting cards featuring babies’ handprints to thousands of GI dads. Mothers bring babies to AWVS headquarters at 160 North LaSalle Street on weekdays.
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G.I
Chicago
American Women’s Voluntary Services
A.W.V.S
North LaSalle St
Our Boys in the Armed Forces
Members of Riverdale families report wartime service and postings. John Hence, wounded in the Pacific, is at Great Lakes Naval Hospital. Pvt Anthony Van Dyke left for Fort Meade after furlough from Camp Blanding. Donald Wilcoxen visited his brother Jack in Massachusetts while both on leave from the Southwest Pacific. Lawrence M. Flahive enrolled at Scott Field radio school for AAF training. Sgt Paul J. Schmiedl serves as radar technician at a Liberator base in England. Messages from servicemen note news in The Pointer and address changes. Richard P. Haynes returns to duty after ten months in the South Pacific. will train in Philadelphia before resuming active service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfe. John Hence
U. S
Riverdale
Pacific Islands
Naval Hospital
Great Lakes
Pvt
Anthony van Dyke
Fort Meade
Camp Blanding
Fla
Wn L
Donald Wilcoxen
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
Jack
Southwest Pacific
Don
Massachusetts
Norfolk
Scott Field
Illi
Lawrence M. Flahive
J. J. Flahive
Army Air Forces Training Command Radio School
Raf
Army Airways
Eighth Air Force Service Command
England
Paul J. Schmiedl
Lincoln Ave
Dalton
Liberator
Eighth Air Force
Schmiedt
Newark
N. J
Camp Murphy
Richard P. Haynes
Elsie Griffith
San Francisco
Calif
South Pacific
Navy
Philadelphia
Richard
Three Harvey Plants Win Safety Awards in 1944
Three Harvey plants, the Buda company, Wyman-Gordon, and Bliss & Laughlin, won in the Greater Chicago Safety Council's 31st interplant accident prevention contest run Jan 1 to Jun 20, 1944. Honored at the fall dinner in Stevens hotel with over 900 attendees, the event featured David Nichol of Chicago Daily News speaking on Russia As I See It.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey
Buda Company
Wyman-Gordon Company
Bliss & Laughlin
Greater Chicago Safety Council
The
Safety Council
Stevens Hotel
David Nichol
Chicago Daily News
Russia
Thanksgiving Lesson-Sermon to be read in Christ Scientist churches
Christian Science Churches announce Thanksgiving as the Lesson Sermon subject for all churches on Thursday November 23. The Golden Text from II Corinthians 2:14 proclaims triumph in Christ and the savor of knowledge. The week includes Psalms 100 and 5:8 and selections from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy on gratitude, prayer, and harmony with divine law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churches of Christ
Mary Baker Eddy
Former Ivanhoe Residents Visit in California Couple
Mr and Mrs Paul Clark formerly of Ivanhoe arrived from Inverness California last week and were weekend guests at Mr and Mrs Leo Popper's Ivanhoe home. Monday Mrs Edward R Jaeschke hosted a luncheon in Mrs Clark s honor at 14203 Edbrook Ave.
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Paul Clark
Ivanhoe
Inverness
Calif
Leo Popper
Edward R. Jaeschke
Edbrooke Ave
War Service Pennant Awarded to 107 Steamship Firms
In a note on naval history, Marines wore green coats and white waistcoats with buff trousers tucked into leggings. The War Shipping Administration grants the War Service pennant to 107 American flag steamship companies for Merchant Marine fleet management.
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U. S. Marine Corps
War Shipping Administration
War Service
American Flag Steamship Companies
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Fortress
G.I. Papas
United States Marine Corps
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Eugene J. Flahive
Moffett Field
Virginia L. Hampton
Calcutta
India
Oglethorpe
Camp Pickett
Fike
Pointer
Tam
Christian Science Churches
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Bataan
Pacific
First Trust & Savings Bank OF Riverdale
First National Bank IN
Dolton
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